"Devour (NSFW)" music video by Pharmakon
Added: 26-09-2019
Genre : Experimental
Description : WARNING: not suited for sensitive users
Pharmakon - Devour (Official Video)
"Devour" - A video collaboration between Jacqueline Castel, Caroline Schub, and Margaret Chardiet to celebrate the release of Pharmakon's record Devour, out now on Sacred Bones Records.
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KEY CREDITS:
Filmmaker Jacqueline Castel
Multimedia Artist Caroline Schub
Musician Margaret Chardiet
Featuring Performances by Artists:
Micki Pellerano
Sigrid Lauren & Monica Mirabile of performance group flucT
STATEMENT
Devour marks a collaboration and working collage between three artists from different disciplines, anchored by the themes of self-cannibalization present within Pharmakon’s latest recording of the same name.
The intimate, rigorous series of shoots for this project formed a ritual for our summer together, informed by Musician and Performer Chardiet’s soundscapes which echo the stages of grief associated with the cyclical chamber of self-destruction amidst the chaos of the external world. This conceptually formed the backbone for the video, an exploration of the act of devouring oneself as an attempt to balance the agony of existence.
Multimedia Artist Schub created the still lifes cast from Margaret’s body (present on Devour’s album artwork), along with contributing a model of her torso, used for a gruelling series of takes where she consumed her own body cast from gelatin. Her flesh became our collective canvas, an extension of Schub’s own personal work of physical self-documentation, a form of self-preservation after years of chronic illness. This was contrasted with performances by fellow artists and friends Micki Pellerano, and Sigrid Lauren & Monica Mirabile of performance collective flucT.
Once shot, the video was processed through a series of VHS dubs done by hand by Filmmaker Castel, a methodical act of degeneration akin to the creation of a photocopy, a slow deterioration of the work imbued within the medium itself. The edit was then approached as a conceptual video zine, a surrealist cut up of dissociative, abstracted figures clashing against static, unidentifiable flesh, and visceral moments of performance to once again echo the narrative of a body in crisis.
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A grimy excursion into the worlds of noise/power electronics/death industrial, Pharmakon is the project of New York-based performer Margaret Chardiet. Mixing slow, churning beats with abrasive blasts of synthesizers and her own anguished screams, the project blends noise's confrontational qualities without completely abandoning musicality. This gives Pharmakon a sound that, while harsh and unsettling, beckons the listener with its hypnotic rhythms. She has received much greater attention than usual for a noise/power electronics artist due to her innovative performances, during which she often forcefully interacts with her audience, as well as accomplished studio albums such as 2014's Bestial Burden.
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